May 15, 2017 Archives

Week of May 15, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, May 15

First He Came for the FBI. What's Next?

Cass Sunstein, Bloomberg

FBI Doesn't Need Another Don Quixote

Brandon Weichert, American Greatness

Wave of Uneducated White Voters Never Happened

Scott Clement & Kim Soffen, WaPo

A Special Prosecutor Is Not the Answer

David Frum, The Atlantic

The Future of Conservatism in an Age of Alienation

James Pethokoukis, AEIdeas

Nuclear Reactors Face "Doom and Gloom" Scenario

Andrew Follett, The Daily Caller

The Week That Could Make - or Break - America

Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast

In Place of Tocqueville's American Restlessness, Complacency

Peter Lawler, NR

It's the Wealth Gap, Stupid: Inequality Drives Economic Anxiety

Erin Keane, Salon

No Third Way for the Planet

Kate Aronoff, Jacobin

What We're Losing in James Comey

Benjamin Wittes, The New York Times

Overhaul of Dodd-Frank Headed to U.S. House

Watchdog.org

Tuesday, May 16

The American Dream Abides

Scott Winship, National Review

GOP Uses Voter Suppression Playbook on Unions

David Madland, RCPolicy

What Do We Hold in Common?

James R. Rogers, Library of Law & Liberty

The Culprits Behind White Flight

Leah Boustan, The New York Times

The Left's Misguided Obsession With "Cultural Appropriation"

George Will, WP

America's Worst Voter Suppression Law Dies

Ian Millhiser, Think Progress

How the Right's Think Tanks Stopped Thinking

F.H. Buckley, New York Post

An Income Tax for Everything

Jeff Spross , The Week

Trump, GOP Prepare for Tax Code Bonfire

Joseph Lawler, Wash. Examiner

Will Trump Destroy the Dollar?

Sebastian Mallaby, The Atlantic

When Headlines Turn Into Mandatory Minimums

Regan Hines, TAC

Deep Cuts Coming in Basic Assistance for Families

Robert Greenstein, CBPP

Wednesday, May 17

The Fallacy of Endless Economic Growth

Christopher Ketcham, PSMag

The Fed Should Focus on America's Wage Problem

Samuel Rines, Nat. Interest

Mass Hacking: Time to Go Offline

Robert Kuttner, The Huffington Post

NASA's Worst Plan Yet

Robert Zubrin, National Review

Can the Democrats Reclaim the Health-Care Narrative?

Zoe Carpenter, TN

No Exit on Health Care

Richard A. Epstein, Defining Ideas

Trump Wants to "Break Up" the Ninth Circuit

Russell Wheeler, FixGov

The Hidden Realities of U.S. Incarceration

Robert VerBruggen, TAC

Protect the Public Commons

Alexander B. Howard, The Atlantic

Don't Invoke National Security to Rationalize Protectionism

Daniel Ikenson, CUF

Republicans Block Cities From Raising Minimum Wage

Clio Chang, TNR

Puerto Rico Needs IMF-Style Help

Desmond Lachman, OMFIF

Thursday, May 18

Trump's Worst Nightmare Comes True

Philip Shenon, Politico

The Trump Tipping Point for Conservatives?

Jonathan S. Tobin, Nat. Review

The Imperial Bureau

Chip Gibbons, Jacobin

The Nightmares and the Realities of Never Trump

Victor Davis Hanson, AG

America's Most Dangerous Temp

David Dayen, The American Prospect

The Ugly Truth About Obama’s "Net Neutrality"

Lawrence J. Spiwak, RCPolicy

Congress, Not the FCC, Must Fix Net Neutrality

Berin Szóka, Wired

Corporate Taxes Harm Business

Elaine Kamarck & James Pinkerton, Wash. Times

The Trump Presidency Falls Apart

David A. Graham, The Atlantic

Burning Down His House

Greg Weiner, Library of Law & Liberty

Trump Is Being Taken Apart, Step by Step

Martin Longman, Wash. Monthly

FTC Commissioners Must Respect Intellectual Property

Jenny Beth Martin, DCE

Friday, May 19

Against the "25th Amendment Option"

Ian Tuttle, National Review

Liberals, Don't Fear President Pence

Jeet Heer, The New Republic

The Energy Department Hasn't Accomplished Much

Mark P. Mills, The Hill

Trump's Assault on the "Administrative State"

Eliza Newlin Carney, TAP

How to Cure What Ails American Cybersecurity

Ryan Hagemann, RCPolicy

Apparently, Some Black Lives Don't Matter

Heather Mac Donald, City Journal

The Best Replacement for Obamacare Is Medicaid

Michael S. Sparer, NYT

The Senate Needs to Fix, Not Abandon, the AHCA

Joel M. Zinberg, RealClearHealth

Infrastructure Triage: Fix the Bottlenecks

Chris Spear, RealClearPolicy

A Bill to Criminalize Millions of Peaceful People

David Bier, Cato Institute

Education Budget Slashes Funds for Poor Students

Casey Quinlan, ThinkProgress

Forging a Consensus on Medicaid Reform

Charles Blahous, Economics 21

Saturday, May 20

The Dangers of Loyalty in Governing

Andy Smarick, RealClearPolicy

Democrats Are Falling for Fake News About Russia

Zack Beauchamp, Vox

We Are Watching A Slow-Motion Coup D’Etat

James Downton, The Federalist

The Poor Die Younger

Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect

Is the Party Over?

Daniel Ritchie, National Affairs

It's Time for the Government to Give Everyone a Job

David Dayen, The Nation

An Unconvincing Attack on Silicon Valley From the Left

Mark Epstein, NR

Trump: The New Deportation Threat

Julia Preston, New York Review of Books

The Stark Truth About Trump

Thomas M.J. Bateman, Library of Law & Liberty

Trying to Remember J.F.K.

Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker

Conservatism & Ideological Politics

Glen A. Sproviero, Imaginative Conservative

Trump Is Ignoring America's Looming Cybersecurity Threat